Betty MacDonald Memoirs Series by Betty MacDonald

4.07 · 46 ratings
  • The Egg and I (Betty MacDonald Memoirs #1)
    #1

    The Egg and I (Betty MacDonald Memoirs #1)

    Betty MacDonald

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings · published 1945

    “A work of real comic genius. . . . A wonderful, funny, warm, honest book, and, to use a much overused word, a classic.” –Michael Korda, author of Country Matters When Betty MacDonald married a marine and moved to a small chicken farm on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State, she was largely unprepared for the rigors of life in the wild... more

  • The Plague and I (Betty MacDonald Memoirs #2)
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    The Plague and I (Betty MacDonald Memoirs #2)

    Betty MacDonald

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 1948

    Tuberculosis. A terrifying word, as terrifying then as cancer is now. It meant entering a sanatorium for treatment, leaving her family, her children. And what if she did not recover? Hardly the basis for comedy, one would suppose. And one would be wrong... more

  • Anybody Can Do Anything (Betty MacDonald Memoirs #3)
    #3

    Anybody Can Do Anything (Betty MacDonald Memoirs #3)

    Betty MacDonald

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 1945

    One would suppose that during the Depression there wasn't much to laugh about in America. But one would be wrong. This book takes up Betty's story before she'd had any success as a writer - when she went back to live with her mother. With a failed chicken farm and marriage behind her, Betty was desperate to make a living in a country without any jobs... more

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